The Hero's Companion (The Hunter Legacy) (7 page)

'A hundred days' was the episode title of a
third season episode of Stargate SG1, where an asteroid hitting the Stargate
and burying it, leaves Jack O'Neill stranded on another planet for 100 days,
before his team are able to find a way through the buried gate, to rescue him
from the woman he fell in love with.

The threat Lucy keeps making to Charlie Brown, in the
cartoon series Peanuts, by Charles M Shultz. Originally a paper cartoon, later
turned into square screen tv series and movies, before being remade in flat
screens. Subsequently remade several times each century.

Said by Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, in the movie Star
Trek 2.

Said by Spock, in the movie Star Trek 4.

Carol Marcus was a scientist in the movie
Star Trek 2.

Helen Magnus was the leader of a Sanctuary
for Abnormals, in the tv flat screen Sanctuary, played by Amanda Tapping.

The author appears to have run out of names
associated with this actor, but don’t count on it.

There is some controversy over if this will
kill someone or not.

In theory, the nose is made up mainly of
cartilage, which is too soft to damage the brain. Given force against it, it
gets compressed against the brain, most likely resulting in a headache.

However, at the top of the nose, is bone.
Hit hard enough, like by a combat suit fist or an android fist, the bone would
also break, and be pushed up into the brain. The bone shards would penetrate
the brain itself, opening a way for the cartilage mass to enter the brain as
well, resulting in death. This could even happen using a suit belt covered
fist.

Even if the bone wasn’t broken, a
sufficiently violent impact, such as from a combat suit fist or an android
fist, could push the cartilage matter into the brain itself, resulting in
death. At the very least, the frontal areas of the brain would be traumatized
to the point where the brain ceased to function.

The naked human fist most likely lacks the
power to effect death by broken nose, but again, if sufficient power is
applied, once to break the nose, and then to push it straight back along the
line the cartilage forms from the back of the nose to the tip, it could do
enough damage to the brain to cause death. It would require the exactly right
angle to hit at, since merely hitting the nose straight on, would flatten it
against the rest of the front skull, doing no damage at all brain wise.

In the end though, since this is happening
in a book, it comes down to what the author thinks will happen, and the outcome
the author wants. In these cases, death by broken nose.

Consensus of opinion suggests the severing
of the penis won't result in bleeding to death.

Obviously the longer the wound is left to
bleed, the bigger the problem, but such a wound is on par with a wound anywhere
else, which doesn’t involve an artery.

Untended, it eventually could lead to
death, especially when the thus wounded man passes out, or the shock of loss
causes other problems such as a heart attack. There is also the possibility of
air entering the blood system through veins now open to the air, and causing
some sort of embolism or stroke.

Consensus therefore would be assuming
medical help is very quickly available.

In a novel, it comes down to this: The
author giveth and the author taketh, said giving or taking depending on where
the story is going.

From the square screen movie Roadhouse.

To Rabbit on. Slang for talking non-stop.

Boss or Master, in Swahili.

Homer Simpson joke.

Head bowed forward, and resting in the palm
of the hand. Usually indicated extreme surprise, usually the result of major
stupidity.

The classic face-palm, used ever after in
social media, was of the face-palm done by Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the
Enterprise-D, in Star Trek The Next Generation.

Head bowed forward, the nose held between
thumb and two fingers, eyes closed.

From the square screen tv series Ally
McBeal.

… footloose and fancy free.

From the square screen, The Muppet Movie.

The main theme of Battlestar Galactica.

"… the figure of a dark man, wreathed
in fire, who takes a step towards you…"

From the flat screen The Hobbit movie
series.

Jon: "Dinner over, most headed for the
theatre, while I took myself back to the Bridge. With luck, Elves and Dwarves
verses Orcs and Goblins might keep the crew occupied for a while. Although I
seriously didn’t think anyone would be watching the whole thing in one sitting.
I had, but then, I do crazy things like that at times."

Referring to watching extended edition
movie trilogies, where each movie is two to three hours long. Brief pauses for
toilet breaks and sourcing food, otherwise non-stop viewing.

For the record, the author does this all
the time.

The author was called this on his 2014
visit to northern India, as he was there as a volunteer healer.

It is possible to bring something like a
scratch, which happens in etheric 'dreamland', onto the body when waking.

The author does this all the time,
constantly finding scratches he doesn’t remember getting.

The more time you spend 'out there' while
asleep, the more chance of injury while you are there. It’s the price of being
a soul which astral travels while asleep, doing the healing work of the angels.

However, it also helps that you sleep with
well-trimmed finger and toe nails.

An internet 'personality' beginning late
2012, noted for negative sayings and a grumpy expression. Was a real cat.

From Max and the Gang of Five, a novel by
Helen Ellis.

The complete amended description of the
planet Earth, in the electronic book, the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Previous to the update, the entire entry had read 'harmless'. Shortly after the
description was amended, the planet was demolished to make way for a hyperspace
bypass.

From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,
by Douglas Adams.

Botany Bay is on the south side of Sydney,
in New South Wales, Australia. Captain James Cook landed there in 1770.
Eighteen years later, the first British colony fleet landed there, before
deciding to colonize slightly further to the north.

Botany Bay was the ship Khan was exiled in,
found adrift by the Enterprise in the square screen Star Trek Original Series.
Years later, its remains were discovered again by the crew of another starship,
carrying one of Enterprise's original crew, with disastrous consequences; in
the second Star Trek square screen movie.

From the board game Monopoly.

As your speed approaches that of the speed
of light, weird things happen to time. On the ship, time remains constant, you
age as you normally do, and notice nothing. But outside the ship, time speeds
up. The result of travelling at relativistic speeds is, it might take you 5
years to get to your destination, and five years to get back, but when you
return, the grandchildren of your family and friends might already be dead. The
effect varies according to how close you get to the speed of light.

Traveling at relativistic speeds is a one
way ticket into the future. For examples, see the Ender's Game sequels, Ender
in Exile, and Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card.

Something more than Boom, and much more final.
From the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy series. "…the universe going
foom…"

Slugging it out the hard way. Where there
is no deviousness, guile, deception, carefully arranged trap, or other device
designed to make a battle one sided, you end up with two combatants fighting it
out in the most brutal way possible, like two fighters in a ring, using only
their fists.

The Thunderbolt was an American fighter
during World War 2. It was also a fighter in the computer game Wing Commander
4.

The Broadsword was a bomber in the computer
games Wing Commander 2, and Wing Commander Privateer.

Ordinary beings, especially humans.
Possessing no special gifts of any kind. From the square screen tv series
Babylon 5.

From the square screen tv series, Get
Smart. As in: "Good thinking Ninety Nine."

From New Who, Twelfth Doctor. (Matt Smith)

Annabelle Smith is like an older version of
Amanda Tapping, from Stargate SG1, and Sanctuary, just grey the hair.

Amanda and Aleesha Peck, the twins, are the
spitting image of Karen Gillan from Doctor Who, only with short dark hair.

Alison is close to Tricia Helfer from BSG,
only with straight blonde hair.

BA is a slightly more solid version of Zoe
Saldana, from Avatar and the first Trek Reboots.

Aline looks like a younger Grace Park, also
from BSG.

Alana also looks like a BSG actor, being
close to Katee Sackhoff, but not as outgoing.

Agatha has the dark lean looks of Sarah
Shahi, from Person of Interest.

Abigail has the dark, more rounded look of
Taraji P Henson, also from Person of Interest.

George is epitomized by
John
Gallagher Jr., from Newsroom, only with more attitude.

Jane looks like Amy Acker, from Person of Interest, only
with short mousy brown hair.

From a Stargate SG1 episode, where Daniel
dreams the consequences of a choice, which leads to disaster, teaching him to
make a better choice.

Karn was a planet in the Doctor Who
universe. The 'Sisterhood' lived there. Very little is known of them, as they
were only in a fourth Doctor Series (The Brain of Morbius), and a mini-episode
for the fiftieth year celebrations, featuring the eighth doctor's regeneration
into nine. (Eight was only in the one telemovie, which forms a bridge between
Classic Who, and New Who. Nine was only in the episode The Day of the Doctor.)

There is speculation the Sisterhood was an
offshoot of the Doctor's race, before time travel began. But as far as is
known, there is no canon source to confirm this.

The sisterhood's main charge was to guard
the elixir of life, which co-incidentally could help a Timelord through a
regeneration crisis.

Said by Grace, to Jake, in the flat screen
Avatar, the first time he sees her in an avatar body.